This book is a great place to start for readers of Lacan or Zizek, and will particularly suit those who are interested in studying film an/or psychoanalytic criticism in depth. The book displays all that is good about Zizek's early work; his canny knack of compiling essays that discuss highly complicated ideas and thoughts in simple fashion, and his humourous delivery and use of anecdotes and popular culture to pep up his writing.
It also thankfully does without the self-repeating and didactic approach of his later, post 9/11 books such as 'Organs Without Bodies'.Highlights include Alenka Zupancic's excellent essay on 'Murder!' entitled 'A Perfect Place To Die' which also touches on Hamlet and Hitchcock in the theatre; Miran Bozovic's essay 'The Man Behind His Own Retina' and Zizek's own conclusion 'In His Bold Gaze Is My Ruin Writ Large' which tackles 'Psycho' in fine detail. A fine companion to readers of either Lacan or Hitchcock, and a cool introduction to those who are not.
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